How Long Will This Current Global Warming Panic Last?

Question

I'm guessing that sometime late in 2010. Then we are going to hear more and more news about the end of the world, the Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, and the Bible.

People will believe that there is substance to these stories just like they believe in the global warming stories.

Movies will be made showing us how the end of days will happen, books will be written, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC will all be running specials about the end of the world.

Politicians will be witting laws, raising taxes, and the public will demand to be saved even if it means giving up their freedoms.

This scare will overtake headlines moving "global warming" to the back pages.

I just wonder if anyone will even care about "warming" after 2012.

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Until we answer the following questions:

What is the perfect climate, and when did Ma (Earth) experience it?

Climate has vacillated wildly for millions of years. Once we set this baseline, we can go about "solving" the "problem".

Addendum - Bob - Tough to communicate anonymously to a worldwide audience going "back to nature"... Although smoke signals would definitely reduce your carbon footprint!

Answer 2

Well, that's sort of hard to answer, Jello. Obviously, anthropogenic global warming theory would be scrapped the minute the theory didn't match observations, since that's how science works. But that isn't what you asked. You asked how long the =panic= would last. And, to be frank, I don't believe there is any panic. In fact, I have yet to see a single person panicked about it in the slightest. Concerned? You bet, panicked? Not bloody likely. Perhaps you ought to provide me with some evidence of this wide spread panic you harp on all the time.

Answer 3

It will take a few years. According to the CRU, 1998 is still the warmest year on record. But the PDO just went into its cool phase so we may have cooler temps for the next 30 years. Plus, Anthony Watts will finish his survey of GHCN weather stations in a few years and a new temp record will come out based only on good quality stations. What happens if we learn the world was warmer in 1934 than in 1998?

I think you are about right with 2012 to 2015 but I reach that conclusion for different reasons.

Answer 4

Panic is a good description--but it hasn't started yet. Wait until the major effects of global warming start to make themselves felt.

The good news is that the reality will discredit the anti-science types among the conservatives and religious right--permanantly.

No one will listen to them--ever again--as the body ***** mount from disasters that could easily have been prevented if we had not been stopped by these extremists from acting in time.

Answer 5

It will go on as long as the Liberal Media goes unchecked. They continue to perpetuate the myth of global warning.

Stand up and call out the BS by these leftists.

Back in the 70' the same people crying about Global Warming were preaching Ice Age!

This will all go away and then Liberals will find some new doom and gloom to preach.

Answer 6

There's always a faction of the population that buys the "National Enquirer," but most of them know that like pro wrestling, it's make believe. So is the above scenario.

To answer the question posed, I'm not in a panic but I'm deeply concerned, and seeing our government leaders take action by adopting America's Climate Security Act of 2007 would go a long way to allay my concerns, most of which are based due to the accumulation of facts, but by long-standing inaction at the national level.

S. 2191 was introduced Oct. 18th by Senators Lieberman and Warner, who are Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection.

A key supporter of the bill, Environmental Defense, issued a statement saying that the bill would require that covered sectors, about 80% of the U.S. economy, reduce emissions by 15% below 2005 levels in 2020, a "strong target" that they say "helps put the U.S. on the path to much deeper reductions by the middle of the century."

The bill also has support from the National Wildlife Federation, Exelon Corporation, PGE Corp; Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. And mine, although I hope that this is just a beginning.

Answer 7

Some scientific research links Global warming to an ice age. Although it seems strange, it is more than likely that that will happen. Global warming will melt the ice caps, which will flood too much fresh water into the ocean and mess up the ocean currents. Those ocean currents bring heat from the equator to the poles, and without them, the Northen hemishphere goes into an ice age.

Answer 8

Until we fix the problem.

30-50 years.

Global warming is scientific fact. A few "skeptics" aren't right, while the vast majority of the scientific community is wrong. Get real.

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists. I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

NASA's Gavin Schmidt

The consensus isn't the proof. But the consensus exists because there IS (massive) proof. Here's a small piece of it.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

EDIT wisebud - There is no perfect climate of course. We don't need to try for that. We just need to return control to nature.

"If the Earth came with an operating manual, the chapter on climate might begin with a caveat that the system has been adjusted at the factory for optimum comfort, so don't touch the dials."

Answer 9

ok to the idoit who said "destroy all gas cars and use hydrogen"

1. destroying allt hose cars casues pollution,

2.hydrogen cannot be easily captured nor sotred without the fear of explosion i mean what if terroist used those in bombs i mean nevermind gzsoline

pl;us this will probally fade off in 20 or so years like global cooling

Answer 10

It won't stop until the planet starts a long-term cooling trend. The time it takes to do that depends on the time it takes to elect politicians dedicated to the task, plus several decades for such policies to take effect.